Showing posts with label cliques. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cliques. Show all posts
Sunday, November 10, 2019

The cool kids can go fu ... well, you know what I mean.

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The pirate looks at sixty, and the evidence is incontrovertible. Each time in my life, when for some arcane reason it seemed a good idea ...
Sunday, September 01, 2019

"Not a Cool Kid in High School? Study Says You Should Probably Be Relieved."

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In NA politics, it’s all about sitting with the Cool Kids at lunch. -- attentive blog reader D In high school, I would have liked to b...
Monday, May 06, 2019

ON THE AVENUES REWOUND: Ghosts within these stones, defiance in these bones (2018).

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Originally published on May 17, 2018. What's the turnout going to be for Tuesday's primary election? I've already made my cho...
Tuesday, April 09, 2019

NA Social's about to be dead, so "Long Live NA Social."

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Surely my favorite of all Vaclav Havel quotes is this one. “You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide ...
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Tuesday, July 03, 2018

The Gahan Maw, and other "institutional inbreeding" deformities.

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This notion of "academic inbreeding" makes me think about the current state of New Albany city governance. Academic inbreedi...
Thursday, June 07, 2018

First Taco Walk, now 1 Night Stand. It's not derogatory to suggest that no idea is safe from being hijacked by Develop New Albany.

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The reason why I don't write fiction is that real life is endlessly bizarre, so let's take a look at the next purloined event fro...
Saturday, May 19, 2018

"This girl’s idea was not hers anymore": Taco Walk's real founder explains how Develop New Albany stole her idea, as Jeff Gahan looked on, grinning.

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Meet the pillars (2017). Kelly's to be commended for channeling her anger into positive action. What happened to her last year make...
Thursday, May 17, 2018

ON THE AVENUES: Ghosts within these stones, defiance in these bones.

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ON THE AVENUES: Ghosts within these stones, defiance in these bones. A weekly column by Roger A. Baylor. "Might the accused gen...
Tuesday, January 09, 2018

"Giddy Giddy City": Finally, courtesy of the veteran pop band Sparks, #HisNA has the ideal civic marketing slogan.

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It's like a bolt of lightning from the firmament. For those who don't recall New Albany's epochal experience with Come To Ci...
Friday, November 03, 2017

Strong Towns Week: “This blog has changed my life in profound ways and, in the process, your reaction has given voice to a movement that is slowing seeping into those cogs of government.”

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The Copperhead can be intimidating. You know, this guy up in Minnesota getting involved, and finding it discomforts the governing cliqu...
Thursday, August 11, 2016

From 2011 and 2015: Regaining consciousness in a city “coming” to? Or, the infamous Come to City marketing fiasco of 2011.

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Infamously. (The following has appeared previously, with an introduction from March 19, 2015, with the main section dating to September 2...
Thursday, March 19, 2015

ON THE AVENUES FLASHBACK: Regaining consciousness in a city “coming” to?

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ON THE AVENUES FLASHBACK: Regaining consciousness in a city “coming” to? A weekly column by Roger A. Baylor . Ancient history can b...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Son of Three-Phase Marketing Plan.

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Tuesday's Merchant Mixer attendees were informed about reforms and revisions in the formerly non-collaborative marketing/branding plan d...
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Monday, September 26, 2011

ON THE AVENUES SPECIAL EDITION: Regaining consciousness in a city coming to?

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ON THE AVENUES: Regaining consciousness in a city coming to? A weekly web column by Roger A. Baylor. All the way back in February, some of u...
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